***Official*** West Indies in New Zealand 2013/14

[Beamer]

Disgraceful umpiring. Chalk yet another one up to the 'decision upheld but clearly an error' list. We've had quite a few recently.

 

[Dick Rockett]

Wtf?

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Nah, it's not incorrect.

It's just ridiculous that an umpire would give that out.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Either that's brilliant umpiring or awful umpiring

 

[Neil Pickup]

Obviously not seen any of this as the TV is showing England disintegrating again, but I'm finding myself wondering how you can argue against a batsman being given out LBW purely on the grounds that he's a long way down the wicket, especially when HawkEye goes on to show the ball hitting the stumps.

 

[Bahnz]

The expression on Mills's face as the bowler is running in makes it look like his first born son has just been struck down by the light of god.

 

[hendrix]

Nah, it's not incorrect.

It's just ridiculous that an umpire would give that out.

yup basically.

I don't have any problem with the system or even the fact that it was given out. It' just an example of an umpire not doing his initial job properly.

 

[hendrix]

Obviously not seen any of this as the TV is showing England disintegrating again, but I'm finding myself wondering how you can argue against a batsman being given out LBW purely on the grounds that he's a long way down the wicket, especially when HawkEye goes on to show the ball hitting the stumps.

Nah, it's absolutely out.
It's just weird for an umpire to be giving it out initially.
An umpire will usually give benefit of the doubt to the batsman and there were 4 points of doubt a) halfway down the pitch b) hitting him in line c) height d) missing leg.
As it stands it was out. It's just hard to see how an umpire could give it out initially.

Don't have a problem with the outcome at all. it's out.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

If mccullum was a tailender padding up to that trying to squeeze a cheeky leg bye I'd support that being given because it's negative cricket

 

[Mike5181]

That was a shocker.

 

[Bahnz]

Jeez, Rampaul looks like he had a very good Christmas lunch, doesn't he?

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Nah, it's absolutely out.
It's just weird for an umpire to be giving it out initially.
An umpire will usually give benefit of the doubt to the batsman and there were 4 points of doubt a) halfway down the pitch b) hitting him in line c) height d) missing leg.
As it stands it was out. It's just hard to see how an umpire could give it out initially.

Don't have a problem with the outcome at all. it's out.

Yeah agree. It was out fair and square but I reckon it was a fluke decision and he'd get it wrong 9 times out of 10

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

He needed runner-runner to win the hand, he did all the calculations and came up with odds of 1/25, yet he still pushed all his chips into the middle.

 

[Bahnz]

Lovely ball to a tail ender. Time for Nate to have a slog.

 

[ohnoitsyou]

To think this has happened on the ground with the shortest straight boundaries ever...

 

[Bahnz]

Hmmm:

Gayle, Edwards, Bravo, Samuels, Chanders, Bravo, Ramdin, Narine, Rampaul, Roach, Holder

Should provide a huge challenge in the Caribbean.

 

[hendrix]

ironically, Holder and Rampaul might not be quite as tough propositions in the Caribbean as they would've been in NZ.

 

[Bahnz]

Heh, yeah true, though still a bigger challenge than any of the rabble WI sent down for this series.

 

[ohnoitsyou]

Finally someone with sense

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Yeah definitely think rampaul hasn't been meeting fitness standards